Privacy Concerns with the Smart Grid
Information in this chapter:
• Personal data
• Privacy risks associated with the Smart Grid
• Privacy impact assessment
“These patterns can be useful for analysing our energy use for energy conservation but, together with data from other sources, the potential for extensive data mining is very significant.”1
Giovanni Buttarelli, assistant director of the European Data Protection Supervisor.
Personal data
The above quotation refers to comments raised by the European Data Protection Supervisor raising his concerns about the massive amount of personal data that can be accessed without appropriate safeguards. Indeed, there have been numerous concerns related to the potential threat of personal data by ...
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